Abiola Ilupeju

Abiola Ilupeju is Chevening alumna and a seasoned IT specialist with over 15 years of expertise in software development, application security, and IT talent development. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Economics and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom with a Master of Science in Information Security and Privacy. Additionally, she is researching software security patterns for her Ph.D. program.

Her professional certifications include: CertNexus Cybersecure Coder, Cellebrite Certified Operator in Mobile Forensics, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and IT Service Management (ITIL). She started her professional career working as an Application Developer at Upperlink Limited. There, she created critical applications for organizations like Babcock University, Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT) Business School, and Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to name a few.

With the management's support, she pioneered Upperlink's Software Quality Assurance and Control unit in 2012 and later worked as an Information System Auditor, establishing policies that improved the company's development procedures; she worked with an independent consultant to Upperlink Limited in achieving CMMI Maturity Level 3 (Upperlink is the second company to achieve this in W/Africa), a globally recognized standard.

Abiola has developed and patented a software product, Customer Management and Self-Service software which integrated some leading accounting software. She has proficiency in the following areas of software development: Mobile App Development, Python, PHP, Javascript, Model-View-Controller, Agile methodology etc.

She earned the Best Bug Award for identifying the most significant bug during a 2016 Testhaton, a hackathon for testers in which 50 Nigerian testers were chosen to test various enterprise apps created in Silicon Valley.

Abiola is an Alumna of US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs; she was mentored and trained by the global leader in Cyber Security - Symantec Corporation at their headquarters in California. She worked closely with the development team at Symantec, where she was further exposed to various best practices and newer technologies in software development; while at Silicon Valley, She also had the opportunity of interacting with other leading IT companies such as Linkedin, Mozilla, Youtube, Google, Autodesk etc She is passionate about impacting knowledge into others, she believes our society still has so much to benefit from the application of IT hence wishes that many would be armed with programming skills.

Samuel Odunlade

Samuel is a problem-solving oriented software developer who believes every problem can be solved using the power of technology. He is a passionate teacher and passionate about impacting the best software principles to the next generation of upcoming software developers.

Samuel holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Ladoke Akintola University of technology, Ogbomosho and a Diploma in Computer Technology from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. He is also a double certified in Salesforce CRM with several superbadges and has also prepared students (from both within and outside the country) for salesforce administrator certification.

Samuel has worked for companies within and outside Nigeria as a software engineer. He has also collaborated with developers from all around the world on projects. Some of the companies he worked with outside the country include Manaknight, Ontario Canada. He has also worked as a salesforce trainer for a number software training schools based abroad.

Stanley Obi

Stanley is a technology-driven and creative Software Developer with hands-on experience in a SAAS environment. He is knowledgeable in building world-class solutions for complex business problems.He was among the team at ITANDT Solutions Limited to deploy a SAAS solution for the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2018.

Stanley possesses an HND in computer science from Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri. He has worked as both frontend and backend developer in different companies in Nigeria using Python, PHP, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, MySQL etc.